Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...year 1768 the Royal Academy was founded with Sir Joshua Reynolds president. At that time England was intensely aristocratic. Everything was judged by the standards of old families. Obviously if art was ever to find a place in England it had to be taken up and encouraged by the influential classes. Had Sir Joshua never lived, it is improbable that Gainsborough or Romney would have led the people to demand more than Hogarth's prints; for combined with the highest artistic taste, he possessed all the qualifications of a man of letters...
Perhaps no work of Hogarth's is more worthy of praise than his earnest efforts in forming an organization of artists, which grew into the present Royal Academy...
...clubs will leave Worcester in a special sleeper arriving at New York early tomorrow morning. There they will be transferred to the station of the Central Railroad of New Jersey where they will take the nine o'clock train for Baltimore by the Royal Blue Line. The second concert will be given in Baltimore tomorrow night...
Mackie and Hickok ought to have a battle royal. Mackie's lack of training may be some handicap. He is older than Hickok, but not so quick at breaking through. Mackie tackles best...
...feature of composition which is not thoroughly understood here in America. In fact our architects are afraid of it, having seen its baneful effects in the series of contract built houses which deface New York's streets, but it has been used with great effect, notably in the Palais Royal. Contrast is the bringing together of two great qualities or forms which are in opposition to one another. It is one of the salient features of the Spanish renaissance...